> By the way, Unicode is just a number -> glyph mapping, it doesn't say
> anything about the representation of that number in the byte stream.
> UTF-8 and UTF-16 are such representation specifications.
> 
> The encoding name in PostgreSQL should be changed from UNICODE to UTF-8
> because UNICODE really just isn't an encoding.

Actually you can use "UTF-8" instead of "UNICODE" when using
PostgreSQL. However the "primary" name is still UNICODE, and I agree
it's better to change to UTF-8 for the primary name. Maybe for 7.5?
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Tatsuo Ishii

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